Take Pity, by Mitchell Syrop, part of an exhibition titled The Same Mistake, at Croy Nielsen, in Berlin
I interpret this piece to be an environmental statement, and when viewed among other similar pieces in the exhibit, this seems very plausible. The artist urges the viewer to "take pity" on the environment while using contrasting positive and negative spaces to support his message. It's curious that the word "take" appears in negative space within the image in the upper half of the piece; humans continually take from their environment, often without helping nature to regenerate itself, as the blankness of the word attests. In the lower half of the piece, the word "pity," written in disembodied fragments of the above image within a white space, seems to symbolize the isolation of small remnants of nature within the blankness that is the developed world which we humans have created. While the concept behind the piece is a little cliché, the piece itself contains unexpected and potentially unintentional symbolism.
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I interpret this piece to be an environmental statement, and when viewed among other similar pieces in the exhibit, this seems very plausible. The artist urges the viewer to "take pity" on the environment while using contrasting positive and negative spaces to support his message. It's curious that the word "take" appears in negative space within the image in the upper half of the piece; humans continually take from their environment, often without helping nature to regenerate itself, as the blankness of the word attests. In the lower half of the piece, the word "pity," written in disembodied fragments of the above image within a white space, seems to symbolize the isolation of small remnants of nature within the blankness that is the developed world which we humans have created. While the concept behind the piece is a little cliché, the piece itself contains unexpected and potentially unintentional symbolism.
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/